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Patterned by Nature
The content cycles through twenty programs, ranging from clouds to rain drops to colonies of bacteria to flocking birds to geese to cuttlefish skin to pulsating black holes.
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Incredible Kaleidoscopic Dance Video for TED
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Rich and seemingly boundless as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about reality external to our bodies, is pitifully small. Our vision is limited to a tiny segment of the electromagnetic spectrum, where wave frequencies in their fullness range from gamma radiation at the upper end, downward to the ultralow frequency used in some specialized forms of communication. We see only a tiny bit in the middle of the whole, which we refer to as the “visual spectrum.” Our optical apparatus divides this accessible piece into the fuzzy divisions we call colors. Just beyond blue in frequency is ultraviolet, which insects can see but we cannot. Of the sound frequencies all around us we hear only a few. Bats orient with the echoes of ultrasound, at a frequency too high for our ears, and elephants communicate with grumbling at frequencies too low.
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The Page Turner by Joseph Herscher
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Helga Aichinger, illustration for Jonah and the Great Fish, 1970
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Georgia O’Keeffe - New York with Moon, 1925.
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Art and Insanity
An unusual South Bank Show. Instead of showcasing an artist, here is a film that examines the relationship between madness and art, presented by the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips. Modern society, he suggests, has created a myth about the relationship between madness and creativity that glamorises mental illness and provides an alibi for destructive behaviour, whereas sanity has become equated with boredom and conformity. He believes the sane artist “can include their madness without being overwhelmed by it”.
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